Chairs of DanceHE  – SCODHE (Standing Conference of Dance Higher Education).

Vida Midgelow

Dance Artist/Academic, Vida L Midgelow is Professor of Dance and Choreographic Practices at Middlesex University, UK. She has over 20 years experience facilitating and lecturing. Her movement and video work has been shown internationally and recent essays include, Some Fleshy Thinking (2015) and Creative Articulation Process (CAP) (co-authored with Jane Bacon, 2014). She is currently editing the Oxford Handbook on Improvisation in Dance (OUP, forthcoming) and is the principal researcher for the Artistic Doctorates in Europe project.  As Director of Research Degrees in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries (Mdx) she specialises in the supervision of PaR doctorates. She also undertakes dramaturgical and consultancy roles beyond the University context. Extending these interests Midgelow co-edits, with Prof Jane Bacon, the hybrid peer-reviewed journal, Choreographic Practices (Intellect Press).

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Jayne Stevens

Principal lecturer in Dance at De Montfort University. Before teaching full time at DMU she worked as an independent dance artist and as co-director of Glasshouses Dance Company. Her roles within the University have included Head of Dance (until 2016) and Head of Pedagogic Research in the Centre for Excellence in Performance Arts (2005-09). She has served as Chair (2007-10) and Vice-Chair (2004-07) of SCODHE. Jayne was one of the first recipients of a National Teaching Fellowship in 2000 and since 2005 has been a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her current research focuses on dance pedagogy, creative and choreographic practices, the history and practice of British community dance and employability and the creative industries.

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Jo Butterworth 

Jo Butterworth is currently Professor in Dance Studies at the University of Malta (www.um.edu.mt/performingarts). She was invited to the University of Malta in 2008 to do a consultancy on Dance study in the University, and wrote and validated both Bachelors and Masters programmes. From 2010 – 2015 she was Head of Dance Studies at UoM, and founding Director of the School of Performing Arts from 2012 – 2015. Jo continues to work with postgraduate students in the School.  Formerly Head of Dance at Bretton Hall, and subsequently Senior Lecturer in Dance at the University of Leeds (1979-2005), she initiated and directed the first BA Hons Dance programme in the North of England, and also an MA in Performance Studies. From 2002-2010 she directed a part-time MA in Choreography at Fontys Professional University, Tilburg, Holland, and taught on part-time postgraduate courses at Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA).

Jo’s education started at the Laban Art of Movement Studio; she read for a Masters at New York University and received her doctorate from the University of Kent in 2002. Research interests focus on dance making and its applications which led to the Arts Council-funded project The Greenhouse Effect: the art and science of nurturing dancemakers (1997-1999) and the publication of Dance Makers Portfolio in 1998. In 2009 she published Contemporary Choreography: A Critical Reader for Routledge, co-edited with Liesbeth Wildschut, and more recently the single-authored Dance Studies the Basics (2012) also for Rutledge.   Jo was Chair of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance Board for 12 years until 2013, and a trustee of Northern Ballet in Leeds, UK (2006-2016). She is now a trustee of Zfin Malta Dance Ensemble, the national dance company of Malta, and Chair of Opening Doors Association, Malta. She has recently joined the Board of Dundee Rep Theatre, the home of Scottish Dance Theatre.

She is currently working on a second edition of Contemporary Choreography: A Critical Reader with Liesbeth Wildschut, a chapter for Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance, and a chapter on Interdisciplinarity in the Performing Arts for the University of Malta Press.

PhD PFHEA FRSA 2015-present

  2014-present

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